What do you call the genre that includes Belinda Carlisle, Your Love, Jessie’s Girl, and others like this Song of the Week? Much like Paul Westerberg’s Waiting For Somebody, they’re songs I bounce around to. I hear them and I can almost picture myself sliding in my socks down the hall, bellowing into my hairbrush. Except that I don’t have a hairbrush, and I hate socks without slippers. Really though, songs like this energize me in the most positive way, and I have no idea what to call them.
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